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* TooDumbToLive: Elam walks into an unsecured room where Tuco is taking a bath and just ''assumes'' he has no weapons and gloats over his "victory". However the delay he makes just gives Tuco the chance to be ready to fire his concealed weapon and he's doomed the moment he readies his weapon.
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* DashingHispanic: Despite being called "The Ugly", he's a charismatic UnkemptBeauty; he looks like a scruffy Pedro Infante. "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
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* DashingHispanic: Despite being called "The Ugly", he's a charismatic UnkemptBeauty; he looks like a scruffy Pedro Infante. "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
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* DirtyCoward: He may be a treacherous scoundrel who would betray his allies when he gets the chance. Even so, he's so much fun that you can't help but love him all the while.
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A retired soldier who had presumably been in the same regiment as Jackson and Baker. He takes Jackson refuge after he was finished storing away the missing gold. However, Baker sends his hitman after him when he suspects such a thing.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: He's calm when confronted with an assassin, attempting to bargain with him for his life (or at least to kill Baker to) but never quavering or showing weakness.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: He's calm when confronted with an assassin, attempting to bargain with him for his life (or at least to kill Baker to) too) but never quavering or showing weakness.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: DiscussedTrope. In the extended cut, he's appalled at the poor conditions the wounded/dying soldiers at the fort have to endure. He even lets one soldier keep an entire bottle of booze. That said, as this is the same guy who remorselessly murdered two of his employers and a child, this moment of "kindness" doesn't exactly fit with his otherwise pure evil character, and was understandably deleted.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: DiscussedTrope. In the extended cut, he's appalled at the poor conditions the wounded/dying Confederate soldiers at the fort have to endure. He even lets one soldier keep an entire bottle of booze. That said, as this is the same guy who remorselessly murdered two of his employers and a child, in addition to later shown effectively running a Union POW camp where those same Confederates are routinely mistreated and tortured, this moment of "kindness" doesn't exactly fit with his otherwise pure evil character, and was understandably deleted.
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* IdenticalStranger: He greatly resembles [[Film/ForAFewDollarsMore Colonel Douglas Mortimer]], who at the point in time this film is set would still be fighting for the Confederates. This would technicallly make Angel Eyes Mortimer's CriminalDoppelganger.
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->Portrayed by: Creator/ClintEastwood
->Voiced by: Enrico Maria Salerno (Italian), Clint Eastwood (English), Andre Sogliuzzo (English, extended edition, some lines), Jacques Deschamps (first French dub), Thibault de Montalembert (second French dub)
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* AdaptationNameChange: He's called "Whitey" in Joe Millard's novelization.
* AffablyEvil: "Evil" is a stretch, as he isn't a malevolent person, but while he acts soft-spoken and rather polite, he is actually as much of a scoundrel as Tuco or Angel Eyes when the situation requires it. However, he still retains a few more moral values than the other two and most of the time does what's right, as long as it doesn't interfere with going after the gold.
* AntiHero: He is an UnscrupulousHero. The main reason he's "The Good" is because his two opponents are worse, but he's still ''very'' morally flexible. He also has the highest on-screen body count of the trio: 11. Contrast with Angel Eyes "The Bad", who has the least: 3.
* BadassCape: Though only at the end.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears three different badass longcoats (one of which is in the form of a Confederate Army greatcoat) for most of the film until he gives his coat to a dying soldier. Rather than disturb the corpse, he picks up a nice-looking patterned serape lying nearby, which had become part of the Man With No Name's trademark outfit by that film.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The most (conventionally) handsome man just happens to be "The Good". Granted, the other two were morally worse than him, but Blondie's not exactly a NiceGuy.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Blondie is capable of being as violent as Tuco, and he's even more ruthless if the situation requires it, but he's much less flamboyant. He barely ever talks above a whisper, and he frequently confronts life-threatening situations without uttering a single word. Even when he's crawling through the desert, half-dead from sunburns and dehydration, he never once begs Tuco for his life.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: To Tuco's "two kinds of people" line.
* BountyHunter: Though, he has a tendency to claim bounties and free said criminals, raising the bounty and turning them in at another town to make more money.
* BrokenAce: Anytime Tuco takes charge.
* CharacterDevelopment: The subtlest in the entire film. He begins as a ruthless, insensitive, indifferent outlaw, who would betray his ally mercilessly and without any remorse whatsoever. Yet, as the story progresses (and he nearly gets to see the GrimReaper twice because of Tuco's deadly thirst for revenge), he actually starts to adopt an observable respect for other people's lives. This unloads firstly by unofficially forgiving Tuco by offering him a cigar after the latter's fight with his brother. He later observes with pity the inhuman and terrible conditions under which soldiers on either side of the war are forced to fight, and is concluded with arguably the purest scene in the film, as Blondie, without hesitation, offers his coat and cigar to a dying confederate soldier. Blondie's character truly grew from the experiences he has acquired during his greedy quest for the gold.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: With Tuco.
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: We see him pick up his trademark poncho amongst other identifying traits throughout the film.
* CombatPragmatist: Blondie never gets into a fair fight if he can help it, preferring ambush tactics, misdirection, or, near the end of the film, [[spoiler: outright sabotage]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially with Tuco.
--> '''Tuco:''' God's on our side because he hates the yanks too!
--> '''Blondie:''' God's not on our side because he hates idiots also.
* DecoyProtagonist: It's his partner Tuco that gets the most focus and development throughout the film.
* DeusExMachina: Saved from death by a hangman's noose at the hands of Tuco as the result of a sudden cannon ball that crashes through the wall.
** Later on he once again escapes death at the hands of Tuco when Bill Carson's runaway wagon shows up right when Tuco's about to shoot him in the desert.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Tuco is the protagonist, Blondie is the deuteragonist and Angel Eyes is the tritagonist.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: He and Tuco in the Union soldier camp.
* EnemyMine: With Tuco.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Shooting down the guys that were about to catch Tuco, but then turning the latter in for the bounty, only for it to turn out to be an elaborate prank.
* EveryoneHasStandards: As cynical and morally flexible as he is, even he's appalled at the pointless carnage of the Civil War.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Enforced at the end of the movie. [[spoiler:He leaves Tuco with his life and his share of the gold, just as they agreed... but not before going through an elaborate set of mind games to prevent Tuco from trying to kill him to get at Blondie's share too.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: "Blondie" isn't exactly threatening. The Italian "Biondo" is a neutral word, like "blond one".
* FreudianTrio: The Ego - Objective, calm, focused on the money but occasionally stops to PetTheDog.
* GenreSavvy: Blondie is spared the same ColdBloodedTorture that Tuco got because Angel Eyes knows he'd never talk. Blondie's smart enough to know that talking wouldn't save him.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: He's a violent UnscrupulousHero for most of the movie, but after he cements his goodness by selflessly comforting a dying soldier rather than choosing to pursue the gold, he changes to the poncho from the first two movies in which he's more caring and heroic.
* TheGunslinger: One of the prime examples.
* HairColorDissonance: His hair is sandy brown due to imperfect translation from an original Italian.
* IconicOutfit: He dons the classic poncho seen in the other ''Dollars'' films near the end of the film after running out of {{Badass Longcoat}}s.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Only Blondie could [[ShootTheRope perfectly cut the rope]] about to hang Tuco with a single shot.
* InformedAttribute: For a big part of the movie, it's not really clear what's so "good" about Blondie. He's more an UnscrupulousHero with a few PetTheDog moments. And he's not even that blonde, for that matter.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He always does what's right in the end, but be warned it could be hell getting there.
* KindheartedCatLover: Takes time out to stroke a cat while clearing a town of Mooks with Tuco.
* TheManWithNoName: The TropeNamer, although "Fistful of Dollars" and "Few Dollars More" introduced the character first.
* ManlyFacialHair: Sports the classic rough, rugged beard of an Old West anti-hero. Notably, it starts off as PermaStubble and [[TimePassageBeard then grows into a full beard as the film progresses]].
* MessianicArchetype: Referred to Angel Eyes as "a golden haired guardian angel", quietly resigns to his own "crucifixion" by Tuco's blackmail, and appears as a comforting angel to both the Union captain and the dying Confederate soldier.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Nice ([[UnscrupulousHero for a relative use of "nice", anyway]]).
* NominalHero: Blondie is "The Good", but only because the other two main characters are even worse. Subverted by the end. He does comes off as a ruthless renegade for about a third of the film, but gets better with CharacterDevelopment.
* NoNameGiven: "Blondie", the eponymous Good, is a nickname, used only by Tuco; his real name is never mentioned, and the character is known as the 'Man With No Name' in popular culture.
* OneLastSmoke: The scene with the dying soldier.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Anytime he and Tuco put the other one through hell, they always get each other back. [[spoiler:Blondie winds up getting the last laugh, however.]]
* TheQuietOne: He only speaks when he needs to.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Tuco's Red.
* SociopathicHero: Borders on it in some moments where he's more ruthless than Tuco.
* TheStoic: He is a calm and calculating man of few words.
* SmokingIsCool: Clint Eastwood practically made this trope.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The straight man to Tuco's wise guy. Throughout their misadventures, he takes things every bit as seriously as he should, with the brutally honest snark to match.
* SupportingProtagonist: Tuco is the protagonist.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: See CallBack and IronicEcho.
* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly."
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: At the end, he's very tempted to kill Tuco / leave him to die. Fortunately he decides to spare Tuco and let him keep his half of the gold.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: With Tuco.
->Voiced by: Enrico Maria Salerno (Italian), Clint Eastwood (English), Andre Sogliuzzo (English, extended edition, some lines), Jacques Deschamps (first French dub), Thibault de Montalembert (second French dub)
[[quoteright:235:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_good.jpg]]
* AdaptationNameChange: He's called "Whitey" in Joe Millard's novelization.
* AffablyEvil: "Evil" is a stretch, as he isn't a malevolent person, but while he acts soft-spoken and rather polite, he is actually as much of a scoundrel as Tuco or Angel Eyes when the situation requires it. However, he still retains a few more moral values than the other two and most of the time does what's right, as long as it doesn't interfere with going after the gold.
* AntiHero: He is an UnscrupulousHero. The main reason he's "The Good" is because his two opponents are worse, but he's still ''very'' morally flexible. He also has the highest on-screen body count of the trio: 11. Contrast with Angel Eyes "The Bad", who has the least: 3.
* BadassCape: Though only at the end.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears three different badass longcoats (one of which is in the form of a Confederate Army greatcoat) for most of the film until he gives his coat to a dying soldier. Rather than disturb the corpse, he picks up a nice-looking patterned serape lying nearby, which had become part of the Man With No Name's trademark outfit by that film.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The most (conventionally) handsome man just happens to be "The Good". Granted, the other two were morally worse than him, but Blondie's not exactly a NiceGuy.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Blondie is capable of being as violent as Tuco, and he's even more ruthless if the situation requires it, but he's much less flamboyant. He barely ever talks above a whisper, and he frequently confronts life-threatening situations without uttering a single word. Even when he's crawling through the desert, half-dead from sunburns and dehydration, he never once begs Tuco for his life.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: To Tuco's "two kinds of people" line.
* BountyHunter: Though, he has a tendency to claim bounties and free said criminals, raising the bounty and turning them in at another town to make more money.
* BrokenAce: Anytime Tuco takes charge.
* CharacterDevelopment: The subtlest in the entire film. He begins as a ruthless, insensitive, indifferent outlaw, who would betray his ally mercilessly and without any remorse whatsoever. Yet, as the story progresses (and he nearly gets to see the GrimReaper twice because of Tuco's deadly thirst for revenge), he actually starts to adopt an observable respect for other people's lives. This unloads firstly by unofficially forgiving Tuco by offering him a cigar after the latter's fight with his brother. He later observes with pity the inhuman and terrible conditions under which soldiers on either side of the war are forced to fight, and is concluded with arguably the purest scene in the film, as Blondie, without hesitation, offers his coat and cigar to a dying confederate soldier. Blondie's character truly grew from the experiences he has acquired during his greedy quest for the gold.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: With Tuco.
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: We see him pick up his trademark poncho amongst other identifying traits throughout the film.
* CombatPragmatist: Blondie never gets into a fair fight if he can help it, preferring ambush tactics, misdirection, or, near the end of the film, [[spoiler: outright sabotage]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially with Tuco.
--> '''Tuco:''' God's on our side because he hates the yanks too!
--> '''Blondie:''' God's not on our side because he hates idiots also.
* DecoyProtagonist: It's his partner Tuco that gets the most focus and development throughout the film.
* DeusExMachina: Saved from death by a hangman's noose at the hands of Tuco as the result of a sudden cannon ball that crashes through the wall.
** Later on he once again escapes death at the hands of Tuco when Bill Carson's runaway wagon shows up right when Tuco's about to shoot him in the desert.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Tuco is the protagonist, Blondie is the deuteragonist and Angel Eyes is the tritagonist.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: He and Tuco in the Union soldier camp.
* EnemyMine: With Tuco.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Shooting down the guys that were about to catch Tuco, but then turning the latter in for the bounty, only for it to turn out to be an elaborate prank.
* EveryoneHasStandards: As cynical and morally flexible as he is, even he's appalled at the pointless carnage of the Civil War.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Enforced at the end of the movie. [[spoiler:He leaves Tuco with his life and his share of the gold, just as they agreed... but not before going through an elaborate set of mind games to prevent Tuco from trying to kill him to get at Blondie's share too.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: "Blondie" isn't exactly threatening. The Italian "Biondo" is a neutral word, like "blond one".
* FreudianTrio: The Ego - Objective, calm, focused on the money but occasionally stops to PetTheDog.
* GenreSavvy: Blondie is spared the same ColdBloodedTorture that Tuco got because Angel Eyes knows he'd never talk. Blondie's smart enough to know that talking wouldn't save him.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: He's a violent UnscrupulousHero for most of the movie, but after he cements his goodness by selflessly comforting a dying soldier rather than choosing to pursue the gold, he changes to the poncho from the first two movies in which he's more caring and heroic.
* TheGunslinger: One of the prime examples.
* HairColorDissonance: His hair is sandy brown due to imperfect translation from an original Italian.
* IconicOutfit: He dons the classic poncho seen in the other ''Dollars'' films near the end of the film after running out of {{Badass Longcoat}}s.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Only Blondie could [[ShootTheRope perfectly cut the rope]] about to hang Tuco with a single shot.
* InformedAttribute: For a big part of the movie, it's not really clear what's so "good" about Blondie. He's more an UnscrupulousHero with a few PetTheDog moments. And he's not even that blonde, for that matter.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He always does what's right in the end, but be warned it could be hell getting there.
* KindheartedCatLover: Takes time out to stroke a cat while clearing a town of Mooks with Tuco.
* TheManWithNoName: The TropeNamer, although "Fistful of Dollars" and "Few Dollars More" introduced the character first.
* ManlyFacialHair: Sports the classic rough, rugged beard of an Old West anti-hero. Notably, it starts off as PermaStubble and [[TimePassageBeard then grows into a full beard as the film progresses]].
* MessianicArchetype: Referred to Angel Eyes as "a golden haired guardian angel", quietly resigns to his own "crucifixion" by Tuco's blackmail, and appears as a comforting angel to both the Union captain and the dying Confederate soldier.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Nice ([[UnscrupulousHero for a relative use of "nice", anyway]]).
* NominalHero: Blondie is "The Good", but only because the other two main characters are even worse. Subverted by the end. He does comes off as a ruthless renegade for about a third of the film, but gets better with CharacterDevelopment.
* NoNameGiven: "Blondie", the eponymous Good, is a nickname, used only by Tuco; his real name is never mentioned, and the character is known as the 'Man With No Name' in popular culture.
* OneLastSmoke: The scene with the dying soldier.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Anytime he and Tuco put the other one through hell, they always get each other back. [[spoiler:Blondie winds up getting the last laugh, however.]]
* TheQuietOne: He only speaks when he needs to.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Tuco's Red.
* SociopathicHero: Borders on it in some moments where he's more ruthless than Tuco.
* TheStoic: He is a calm and calculating man of few words.
* SmokingIsCool: Clint Eastwood practically made this trope.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The straight man to Tuco's wise guy. Throughout their misadventures, he takes things every bit as seriously as he should, with the brutally honest snark to match.
* SupportingProtagonist: Tuco is the protagonist.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: See CallBack and IronicEcho.
* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly."
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: At the end, he's very tempted to kill Tuco / leave him to die. Fortunately he decides to spare Tuco and let him keep his half of the gold.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: With Tuco.
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->Voiced by: Enrico Maria Salerno (Italian), Clint Eastwood (English), Andre Sogliuzzo (English, extended edition, some lines), Jacques Deschamps (first French dub), Thibault de Montalembert (second French dub)
[[quoteright:235:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_good.jpg]]
* AdaptationNameChange: He's called "Whitey" in Joe Millard's novelization.
* AffablyEvil: "Evil" is a stretch, as he isn't a malevolent person, but while he acts soft-spoken and rather polite, he is actually as much of a scoundrel as Tuco or Angel Eyes when the situation requires it. However, he still retains a few
* AntiHero: He is an UnscrupulousHero. The main reason he's "The Good" is because his two opponents are worse, but he's still ''very'' morally flexible. He also has the highest on-screen body count of the trio: 11. Contrast with Angel Eyes "The Bad", who has the least: 3.
* BadassCape: Though only at the end.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears three different badass longcoats (one of which is in the form of a Confederate Army greatcoat) for most of the film until he gives his coat to a dying soldier. Rather than disturb the corpse, he picks up a nice-looking patterned serape lying nearby, which had become part of the Man With No Name's trademark outfit by that film.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The most (conventionally) handsome man just happens to be "The Good". Granted, the other two were morally worse than him, but Blondie's not exactly a NiceGuy.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Blondie is capable of being as violent as Tuco, and he's even more ruthless if the situation requires it, but he's much less flamboyant. He barely ever talks above a whisper, and he frequently confronts life-threatening situations without uttering a single word. Even when he's crawling through the desert, half-dead from sunburns and dehydration, he never once begs Tuco for his life.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: To Tuco's "two kinds of people" line.
* BountyHunter: Though, he has a tendency to claim bounties and free said criminals, raising the bounty and turning them in at another town to make more money.
* BrokenAce: Anytime Tuco takes charge.
* CharacterDevelopment: The subtlest in the entire film. He begins as a ruthless, insensitive, indifferent outlaw, who would betray his ally mercilessly and without any remorse whatsoever. Yet, as the story progresses (and he nearly gets to see the GrimReaper twice because of Tuco's deadly thirst for revenge), he actually starts to adopt an observable respect for other people's lives. This unloads firstly by unofficially forgiving Tuco by offering him a cigar after the latter's fight with his brother. He later observes with pity the inhuman and terrible conditions under which soldiers on either side of the war are forced to fight, and is concluded with arguably the purest scene in the film, as Blondie, without hesitation, offers his coat and cigar to a dying confederate soldier. Blondie's character truly grew from the experiences he has acquired during his greedy quest for the gold.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: With Tuco.
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: We see him pick up his trademark poncho amongst other identifying traits throughout the film.
* CombatPragmatist: Blondie never gets into a fair fight if he can help it, preferring ambush tactics, misdirection, or, near the end of the film, [[spoiler: outright sabotage]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially with Tuco.
--> '''Tuco:''' God's on our side because he hates the yanks too!
--> '''Blondie:''' God's not on our side because he hates idiots also.
* DecoyProtagonist: It's his partner Tuco that gets the most focus and development throughout the film.
* DeusExMachina: Saved from death by a hangman's noose at the hands of Tuco as the result of a sudden cannon ball that crashes through the wall.
** Later on he once again escapes death at the hands of Tuco when Bill Carson's runaway wagon shows up right when Tuco's about to shoot him in the desert.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Tuco is the protagonist, Blondie is the deuteragonist and Angel Eyes is the tritagonist.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: He and Tuco in the Union soldier camp.
* EnemyMine: With Tuco.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Shooting down the guys that were about to catch Tuco, but then turning the latter in for the bounty, only for it to turn out to be an elaborate prank.
* EveryoneHasStandards: As cynical and morally flexible as he is, even he's appalled at the pointless carnage of the Civil War.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Enforced at the end of the movie. [[spoiler:He leaves Tuco with his life and his share of the gold, just as they agreed... but not before going through an elaborate set of mind games to prevent Tuco from trying to kill him to get at Blondie's share too.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: "Blondie" isn't exactly threatening. The Italian "Biondo" is a neutral word, like "blond one".
* FreudianTrio: The Ego - Objective, calm, focused on the money but occasionally stops to PetTheDog.
* GenreSavvy: Blondie is spared the same ColdBloodedTorture that Tuco got because Angel Eyes knows he'd never talk. Blondie's smart enough to know that talking wouldn't save him.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: He's a violent UnscrupulousHero for most of the movie, but after he cements his goodness by selflessly comforting a dying soldier rather than choosing to pursue the gold, he changes to the poncho from the first two movies in which he's more caring and heroic.
* TheGunslinger: One of the prime examples.
* HairColorDissonance: His hair is sandy brown due to imperfect translation from an original Italian.
* IconicOutfit: He dons the classic poncho seen in the other ''Dollars'' films near the end of the film after running out of {{Badass Longcoat}}s.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Only Blondie could [[ShootTheRope perfectly cut the rope]] about to hang Tuco with a single shot.
* InformedAttribute: For a big part of the movie, it's not really clear what's so "good" about Blondie. He's more an UnscrupulousHero with a few PetTheDog moments. And he's not even that blonde, for that matter.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He always does what's right in the end, but be warned it could be hell getting there.
* KindheartedCatLover: Takes time out to stroke a cat while clearing a town of Mooks with Tuco.
* TheManWithNoName: The TropeNamer, although "Fistful of Dollars" and "Few Dollars More" introduced the character first.
* ManlyFacialHair: Sports the classic rough, rugged beard of an Old West anti-hero. Notably, it starts off as PermaStubble and [[TimePassageBeard then grows into a full beard as the film progresses]].
* MessianicArchetype: Referred to Angel Eyes as "a golden haired guardian angel", quietly resigns to his own "crucifixion" by Tuco's blackmail, and appears as a comforting angel to both the Union captain and the dying Confederate soldier.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Nice ([[UnscrupulousHero for a relative use of "nice", anyway]]).
* NominalHero: Blondie is "The Good", but only because the other two main characters are even worse. Subverted by the end. He does comes off as a ruthless renegade for about a third of the film, but gets better with CharacterDevelopment.
* NoNameGiven: "Blondie", the eponymous Good, is a nickname, used only by Tuco; his real name is never mentioned, and the character is known as the 'Man With No Name' in popular culture.
* OneLastSmoke: The scene with the dying soldier.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Anytime he and Tuco put the other one through hell, they always get each other back. [[spoiler:Blondie winds up getting the last laugh, however.]]
* TheQuietOne: He only speaks when he needs to.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Tuco's Red.
* SociopathicHero: Borders on it in some moments where he's more ruthless than Tuco.
* TheStoic: He is a calm and calculating man of few words.
* SmokingIsCool: Clint Eastwood practically made this trope.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The straight man to Tuco's wise guy. Throughout their misadventures, he takes things every bit as seriously as he should, with the brutally honest snark to match.
* SupportingProtagonist: Tuco is the protagonist.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: See CallBack and IronicEcho.
* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly."
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: At the end, he's very tempted to kill Tuco / leave him to die. Fortunately he decides to spare Tuco and let him keep his half of the gold.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: With Tuco.
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*** Tuco absolutely tanks the beating Wallace gives him, going so far as to grab Wallace by the throat and giving choking the life out of his tormentor a [[IncrediblyLamePun decent squeeze]]. It's only when Wallace pushes his thumbs into his eyes that Tuco caves in, which is [[PrimalFear pretty understandable.]] Lampshaded by Angel Eyes who later tells Blondie that while Blondie himself wouldn't have talked ''at all'', it's not because he's actually tougher.
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*** Tuco absolutely tanks the beating Wallace gives him, going so far as to grab Wallace by the throat and giving give choking the life out of his tormentor a [[IncrediblyLamePun decent squeeze]]. It's only when Wallace pushes his thumbs into his eyes that Tuco caves in, which is [[PrimalFear pretty understandable.]] Lampshaded by Angel Eyes who later tells Blondie that while Blondie himself wouldn't have talked ''at all'', it's not because he's actually tougher.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he does a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon that is concealed in the bath suds. Tuco even remarks: [[BondOneLiner "If you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."]]
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* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he does a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon that is concealed in the bath suds. Tuco even remarks: [[BondOneLiner "If "When you have to shoot, shoot, shoot don't talk."]]
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Yes, he does.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Creator/EliWallach was 50 at the time of filming. He does not show it at all.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he does a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon that is concealed in the bath suds. Tuco even remarks: [[BondOneLiner "If you gotta' shoot, shoot, don't talk."]]
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* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he does a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon that is concealed in the bath suds. Tuco even remarks: [[BondOneLiner "If you gotta' have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."]]
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* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he does a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon that is concealed in the bath suds.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he does a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon that is concealed in the bath suds. Tuco even remarks: [[BondOneLiner "If you gotta' shoot, shoot, don't talk."]]
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as the entry explains, it's more this trope
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* ButtMonkey: He isn't successful for any more than twenty consecutive minutes in the film. The sum of Tuco's troubles? Nearly hanged twice, left alone in the desert, sent crashing through a floor, getting distracted from killing Blondie, getting the dying Bill Carson water and come back to find that Blondie got information to the gold first, accidentally getting them both arrested, getting beaten up by Wallace twice, gets hit full-on with cannonfire, and then nearly getting hanged a third time, before being left by himself in the cemetery, alive but stranded. Of course, he is a vengeful, opportunistic bandit who probably deserved what he got in the end.
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* KarmicButtMonkey: He isn't successful for any more than twenty consecutive minutes in the film. The sum of Tuco's troubles? Nearly hanged twice, left alone in the desert, sent crashing through a floor, getting distracted from killing Blondie, getting the dying Bill Carson water and come back to find that Blondie got information to the gold first, accidentally getting them both arrested, getting beaten up by Wallace twice, gets hit full-on with cannonfire, and then nearly getting hanged a third time, before being left by himself in the cemetery, alive but stranded. Of course, he is a vengeful, opportunistic bandit who probably deserved what he got in the end.
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->Voiced by: Carlo Romano (Italian), Eli Wallach (English), Creator/ClaudeBertrand (first French dub), Paul Borne (second French dub)
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->Voiced by: Carlo Romano (Italian), Eli Wallach (English), Creator/ClaudeBertrand (first French dub), Paul Borne Creator/PaulBorne (second French dub)
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Hurting Hero is a disambiguation
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* HurtingHero: He is forced to cross the desert with no water, while Tuco is brutally beaten.
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* GoldTooth: He has a prominent silver tooth on the right side of his top jaw.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon concealed in the bath suds.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he does a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon that is concealed in the bath suds.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon concealed in the bath suds.
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* CharacterDevelopment: The subtlest in the entire film.He begins as a ruthless,insensitive,indifferent outlaw, who would betray his ally mercilessly and without any remorse whatsoever.Yet, as the story progresses (and he nearly gets to see the {{GrimReaper}} twice because of Tuco's deadly thirst for revenge),he actually starts to adopt an observable respect for other people's lives.This unloads firstly by unofficially forgiving Tuco by offering him a cigar after the latter's fight with his brother.He later observes with pitty the inhuman and terrible conditions under which soldiers on either side of the war are forced to fight,and is concluded with the arguably purest scene in the film,as Blondie,without hesitation, offers his coat and cigar to a dying Confederate sodlier.Blondie's character truly grew by his experiences he has acquired during his greedy quest for the gold.
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* CharacterDevelopment: The subtlest in the entire film. He begins as a ruthless,insensitive,indifferent ruthless, insensitive, indifferent outlaw, who would betray his ally mercilessly and without any remorse whatsoever.whatsoever. Yet, as the story progresses (and he nearly gets to see the {{GrimReaper}} GrimReaper twice because of Tuco's deadly thirst for revenge),he revenge), he actually starts to adopt an observable respect for other people's lives.lives. This unloads firstly by unofficially forgiving Tuco by offering him a cigar after the latter's fight with his brother.brother. He later observes with pitty pity the inhuman and terrible conditions under which soldiers on either side of the war are forced to fight,and fight, and is concluded with the arguably the purest scene in the film,as Blondie,without film, as Blondie, without hesitation, offers his coat and cigar to a dying Confederate sodlier.confederate soldier. Blondie's character truly grew by his from the experiences he has acquired during his greedy quest for the gold.
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->Voiced by: Enrico Maria Salerno (Italian), Clint Eastwood (English), Andre Sogliuzzo (English, extended edition, some lines)
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->Voiced by: Enrico Maria Salerno (Italian), Clint Eastwood (English), Andre Sogliuzzo (English, extended edition, some lines)lines), Jacques Deschamps (first French dub), Thibault de Montalembert (second French dub)
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->Voiced by: Emilio Cigoli (Italian), Lee Van Cleef (English), Simon Prescott (English, extended edition, new scenes)
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->Voiced by: Emilio Cigoli (Italian), Lee Van Cleef (English), Simon Prescott (English, extended edition, new scenes)scenes), Georges Atlas (first French dub), François Siener (second French dub)
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->Voiced by: Carlo Romano (Italian), Eli Wallach (English), Creator/ClaudeBertrand (European French)
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->Voiced by: Carlo Romano (Italian), Eli Wallach (English), Creator/ClaudeBertrand (European French)(first French dub), Paul Borne (second French dub)
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* Character Development: The subtlest in the entire film.He begins as a ruthless,insensitive,indifferent outlaw, who would betray his ally mercilessly and without any remorse whatsoever.Yet, as the story progresses (and he nearly gets to see the {{GrimReaper}} twice because of Tuco's deadly thirst for revenge),he actually starts to adopt an observable respect for other people's lives.This unloads firstly by unofficially forgiving Tuco by offering him a cigar after the latter's fight with his brother.He later observes with pitty the inhuman and terrible conditions under which soldiers on either side of the war are forced to fight,and is concluded with the arguably purest scene in the film,as Blondie,without hesitation, offers his coat and cigar to a dying Confederate sodlier.Blondie's character truly grew by his experiences he has acquired during his greedy quest for the gold.
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* Character Development: CharacterDevelopment: The subtlest in the entire film.He begins as a ruthless,insensitive,indifferent outlaw, who would betray his ally mercilessly and without any remorse whatsoever.Yet, as the story progresses (and he nearly gets to see the {{GrimReaper}} twice because of Tuco's deadly thirst for revenge),he actually starts to adopt an observable respect for other people's lives.This unloads firstly by unofficially forgiving Tuco by offering him a cigar after the latter's fight with his brother.He later observes with pitty the inhuman and terrible conditions under which soldiers on either side of the war are forced to fight,and is concluded with the arguably purest scene in the film,as Blondie,without hesitation, offers his coat and cigar to a dying Confederate sodlier.Blondie's character truly grew by his experiences he has acquired during his greedy quest for the gold.
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* Character Development: The subtlest in the entire film.He begins as a ruthless,insensitive,indifferent outlaw, who would betray his ally mercilessly and without any remorse whatsoever.Yet, as the story progresses (and he nearly gets to see the {{GrimReaper}} twice because of Tuco's deadly thirst for revenge),he actually starts to adopt an observable respect for other people's lives.This unloads firstly by unofficially forgiving Tuco by offering him a cigar after the latter's fight with his brother.He later observes with pitty the inhuman and terrible conditions under which soldiers on either side of the war are forced to fight,and is concluded with the arguably purest scene in the film,as Blondie,without hesitation, offers his coat and cigar to a dying Confederate sodlier.Blondie's character truly grew by his experiences he has acquired during his greedy quest for the gold.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Because this film is set before the invention of the Colt Single Action Army, Blondie is armed with a Colt 1851 Navy with the same silver snake on the grips as in the other two films. However, he also makes much more frequent use of rifles, mostly to ShootTheRope.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Like most characters in the film, he carries a Colt 1851 Navy with him having three separate pistols at different points in the film, including a frankengun assembled with parts from various different guns.
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* IGaveMyWord: He always carries out his jobs for whoever pays him. Just don't expect him to stay with you after payment.
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* IGaveMyWord: He always carries out his jobs for whoever pays him. Just don't expect him to stay with support you after payment.
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* IGaveMyWord: He always carries out his jobs for whoever pays him. Just don't expect him to stay with you after payment.
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->Voiced by: Mario Pisu (Italian), Peter Fernandez (English)
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->Voiced by: Mario Pisu (Italian), Peter Fernandez Creator/PeterFernandez (English)
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Nice Hat is now dewicked
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* NiceHat: Like Angel Eyes, he sports very nice cowboy hats.
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* NiceHat: Blondie and Angel Eyes both sport very nice cowboy hats.
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* NiceHat: For a good portion of the movie, although he loses it following the episode in the second Union camp. He also has a very impressive sombrero earlier which he ditches for his Bill Carson disguise.
